Sun hats for horses, Bide-a-Wee Home – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Sun hats for horses, Bide-a-Wee Home
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Straw-colored sun hats fitted over the heads of working horses set this picture apart from ordinary street scenes of the period. Around 1907, horses still pulled delivery wagons, streetcars, and carts through American cities, and they had little protection from summer heat. Animal shelters and humane societies of the era pushed for better care of these animals, and small measures like shade and head coverings were part of that effort. The record's date comes from an old caption card and has not been independently verified, so the exact day should be read with that in mind.
| Created / published | c1907 Aug. 28. |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | H XXc 99457 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1. America's Yesterdays, p. 264-265. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Animals, Treatment of; Horses. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,189 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-138448 |
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